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“We are now very close to the moment” when the Commission will finalise its proposal for the investment protection chapter of TTIP to member states and to the European Parliament TTIP Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero announced on Wednesday in Brussels. “Once we will have finalised this discussion we will …

Attitudes to TTIP in Germany reflect a generational and class divide in a rapidly ageing country. The latest opinion poll shows that 65 percent of 30 to 39 year-olds in Germany think the transatlantic trade agreement currently under negotiation is a good thing – in a country where on average only 42 percent of …

France’s attitude so far towards the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has puzzled observers. Despite the country’s well-known and entrenched scepticism of free trade and globalisation, it is not France, but the big trading nation Germany, that has become the focal point of opposition to TTIP in Europe. But while Paris has been cautious on …